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...Dark Music...
...plantation revels, darktown strutters' balls; the frenetic hallelujahs of jubilee revivals where hundreds of Negroes, drunk with ecstasy, wash in the blood of the Lamb, the shifting, subtle rhythms of such spirituals as All God's Chillun Got Wings and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, all are part of that Dark Music. Mississippi roustabouts, limber blackamoors on sunbaked levees hummed it, strummed it; prancing shadows in the Vieux Carré of New Orleans heard it and humped themselves, their feet running wild...
...songs?Alexander's Ragtime Band, Everybody Step, Pack Up Your Sins? which "no Broadway composer has ever surpassed," says Critic Carl Van Vechten. Berlin, a pioneer in ragtime, was perhaps the first white man who noticeably impressed his talent upon the music of the Negro?the first to score dark jungle jingles, canniballets, revivalisteria for the Anglo-Saxophone...
...distinctly unusual when a dark slip of a girl in her mid-twenties stood before the medical faculty of the Sorbonne, last week, for her degree as doctor of science. She read a thesis alleged by those who heard it to have been thoroughly able and predictive of a distinguished scientific career. The degree was swiftly conferred. Female doctors of science are by no means common at the Sorbonne, but this particular one had elaborated upon an important discovery made by her mother. It was Mlle. Irene Curie, of Paris, continuing the radiological research of her mother, Mme. Curie, joint...
These famous reliefs were taken by a certain Elgin in a spirit of archaelogical camaraderie to the British Museum where they have remained ever since. Nobody can see them, of course, because it is too dark and dusty inside, but they are in a good safe place and everybody knows where to find them. The Greeks feel that properly to restore the Parthenon they should have the marbles, which is quite illogical from an English point of view and for that matter quite impractical from any point of view...